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Our Baltimore Correspondence.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 8, 1839.
The Cattle Show — Death of Edgar A. Poe, Esq. — His Sad Fate — The Elections — Stock Sales, &c.
The cattle, and various articles for exhibition at the agricultural fair and cattle show, to commence on Wednesday next, are already arriving, and all is bustle and activity in the vicinity of the grounds devoted to the fair. Our hotels are also filling with strangers, especially [column 2:] those devoted to the pursuits of agriculture.
Our city was yesterday shocked with the announcement of the death of Edgar A. Poe, Esq., who arrived in this city about a week since, after a successful tour through Virginia, where he was found near the Fourth ward polls laboring under an attack of mania à potu, and in a most shocking condition. Being recognised by some of our citizens he was placed in a carriage and conveyed to the Washington Hospital, where every attention has been bestowed on him. He lingered, however, until yesterday morning, when death put a period on his existenue. He was a most eccentric genius, with many friends and many foes, but all, I feel satisfied, will view with regret the sad fate of the poet and critic. His last days were spent in the same institution where Dr. Lopland [[Lofland]] the Milford Bard, spent so many of his latter years, laboring under the effects of the same sad disease.
We have, at last, full returns from the election for the Legislature, showing a whig majority of ten in the House of Delegates, which, with sever in Senate, gives them a clear majority of seventeen, and secures the United States Senator. The democrats, however, have gained eleven members, the majority for the whigs in the last Legislature having been twenty-seven on joint ballot.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble is to give a series of her readings here shortly at Carroll Hall, which, with the Museum and the Ethiopians, will furnish an abundance of attractions.
The following were the sales at the Stock Board Saturday: — 2 shs. B. & O. R. R. 44; 10 do. 44 1/4; 30 do. 44 1/2; 10 do 44 7/8; 10 do. 45.
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Notes:
John Lofland had died in Wilmington, DE on January 22, 1849, at the age of 50. His ultimate cause of death is presumed to have been tuberculosis, but he was in and out of some hospital or hospitals in Baltimore in the 1840s, primarily to wean him off of opium. The 1894 account of his life by Smithers says that he was in the Hospital for Manual Labor and does not mention Washington College Hospital by name. It also mention the Maryland Hospital, which may or may not be the University of Maryland Hospital. This obituary of Poe is the only clear evidence that Lofland was, at least at some time, in the Washington College Hospital, for which no formal records are known to survive.
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[S:0 - NYH, 1849] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Bookshelf - Notice of Poe's Death (Anonymous, 1849)